Jim & Yahtzee's Rhymedown Spectacular: The Analogy of the Mosquito

[Evonisia]

The Mosquito poem was genius (well, maybe not but it was certainly creative), sorry to see you got sick, Jim.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

So how do they come up with the titles? Does Yatzhee just set the title because he goes first? Do they flip a coin? Is it based on time - who has the longest poem? I'd like to know...
Also, Jim, a poem on paper or with subtitles would have been clever. Otherwise sorry to hear you're sick, but don't pretend you don't love the attention at Cons mate! You do and we love you for it!

 

[Frontastic]

Yahtzee won at wit. Jim won at life.

I kind of want Jim to become some kind of anti-con comicbook villain now. One disease too many and now he wanders the halls of various conventions trying to infect and murder as many as he can. A sort of ilness/con version of Calander Man, if you will.

 

[TaboriHK]

Why do so many get sick at cons? I never have. Perhaps I'm just superman :O

How many fans of yours do you shake hands with?

 

[TaboriHK]

Isn't that the story of your life? I guess it comes with the territory of hyperbole, sarcasm, and many peoples' inability to recognize such. Further comments do show he was also just joking, but you have to deal with a lot more than that. Jim's general persona can often fall into similar Poe's Law grounds that Colbert revels in. (The current use of Poe's Law now applies to more than just fundamentalism)

So yeah, exactly what you said.

I'm genuinely impressed that Jim even takes the time to interact with us. Bravo to his steel skin. Thankfully he doesn't sully his videos by actively winking to tell us he's joking or exclaiming "J/K" at the end of it.

We're living in an age filled with so much bile that if you're a genuine fan of someone, I think you should only send unmistakeable positivity in their direction.

 

[Kenjitsuka]

Great one with the mosquito, that's a keeper!!!

 

[medv4380]

I'll say Jim wins this week. Con plague sucks. To avoid it you can't touch anything others touch without then using sanitizer. Push the button on the elevator, sanitize. Used the stair banister, sanitize. Got some water from the public tables, sanitize. Touched a toy, plushy, body pillow, anything on the vendor tables, sanitize. Shake hands, sanitize. Sign someone (seriously), sanitize. There are so many things that you have to avoid you can't go to a con, and come back clean inside.

 

[Sticky]

Excellent job this week, to both of you.

Sorry Jim to hear of your misfortune. I'm okay with any revenge you may bestow upon my non-existent hand that was not actually at PAX, as long as it doesn't involve usage of the dragon dildo and the ***** fist.

 

[twm1709]

Ermmm.... can anyone tell me what is it that happened at PAX that annoyed Jim?

Besides getting sick I mean

 

[guysmiley]

I'm sorry to spoil your wonderful analogy Yahtzee, but the bloodsucking members of the mosquito family are all female.

Seriously? You feel the need to point out that the blood sucking ones are female, but you don't take issue with them talking? Congratulations for being able to share your nugget of wisdom.

A similar thing happened a few years ago when a person wrote a letter of complaint to a newspaper that had featured a Far Side comic where the male mosquito made a comment about sucking blood.

 

[Sheo_Dagana]

I hear ya, Jim. Every time I've gone to a con I've always gotten sick. It's inevitable. I used to go to Anime Central every year, but now I skip because it's so big and out of control and a lot of the goers seem unfamiliar with the concept of hygiene. Or how to cover their mouth when they sneeze. I saw someone sneeze right on a shelf of DVDs I had yet to peruse. I can't imagine having to shake hands with all of them. I personally thought the poem about the whole experience was amusing.

 

[I.Muir]

Derp, Maybe it's you who is dirty, all I hear is whine whine whine whine whine from Jim. But Yahtzee had a great one this time. Actually pretty perfect

EDIT: Sucks that hes sick but good job wasting our time.

Sorry you took my video so seriously.

I found honey tea helps.
Though as to why I can't really say.

It's because Honey is antiinflammatory as well as an expectorant. Or just one of the two, but it's good for the throat regardless. Milk, however, only aids the mucus in forming, so stick to green or herbal tea. Also, Ginger tends to work wonders against colds, so my tip is to peel a (really small, ginger is quite intense) bit of fresh ginger root and slice it up in thin slices. Then add them to a cup of boiled water and let it lay for a couple of minutes. Add a teaspoon of honey and voila. Herbal tea on ginger. Works wonders on colds.

That's some pretty good advice

 

[Ldude893]

This is supposed to be a competition?

Welcome to Rhymedown Spectacular, the show where everything is made up and the points don't matter.

 

[Olas]

I love your analogies Yahtzee, this is probably one of your best. Damn disease carrying mosquitos.

 

[Callate]

Yahtzee's poem was really interesting, and quite amusing, and I appreciate that the dialogue between the mosquitoes is not dissimilar from what goes on among male gamers who would allege to be well-meaning with some frequency.

But the analogy still makes me somewhat uneasy in this: From the outset, one knows beyond question that a mosquito on your arm is there to suck your blood, that that's what it wants and what its actions are foreshadowing.

Is the implication, then, that in *any* interaction between a male gamer and a female one, it should be assumed that the male gamer's underlying intention is to seek romantic or sexual attention from the female gamer?

I like to think that we're a little better than that...

 

[Strazdas]

Yatzee is master of analogy once again. Very well done.
Jims felt weak, he used same schtick of "you like yatzee better" that he already did and then it kinda vent nowhere. We still love you though.

 

[RTR]

What better way to celebrate Talk Like Zecora day than with some witty wordplay.